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SLEEPER  DAVIS  MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 
FOR  WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN 

Peking,  China 

PEKING,  capita!  of  China,  is  situated  in  the 
Province  of  Chihli  about  ninety  miles  from  the 
seacoast.  It  is  a city  of  about  one  million  inhabi- 
tants and  is  provided  with  electric  lights,  water 
supply,  railroads  to  all  parts  of  the  country.  Many 
automobiles  are  seen  on  its  streets. 

The  new  hospital  is  a handsome  four-story  build- 
ing of  gray  brick,  located  in  the  southeastern  part  of 
the  city.  It  is  the  center  of  a large  medical  work, 
including  patients  from  the  city  proper,  the  southern 
city,  and  many  from  the  country.  It  was  finished 
in  September,  1915,  and  cost  approximately  $25,000. 
This  does,  not  include  any  equipment. 

On  the  first  floor  are  the 

Laundry,  dining  room,  kitchens  for  Chinese  food 
and  for  foreign  food,  storerooms,  charity  wards 
with  24  beds,  surgical  wards  with  8 beds,  medical 
with  8 beds,  diseases  of  eye,  8 beds. 

On  the  second  floor  are  the 
Office,  reception  room. 

Two  studies  for  foreign  nurses. 

Three  semi-private  wards,  8 beds  each. 

Three  private  wards,  2 beds  each. 

The  third  floor  accommodates  the 
Obstetrical  Department. 

Delivery  room,  2 private  rooms,  1 ward  of  8 beds. 
Children’s  ward  of  8 beds. 

Three  private  rooms  and  bedrooms  for  the  two 
American  nurses. 

On  the  fourth  floor  are  the 

Operating,  anaesthetizing  and  sterilizing  rooms. 
Eight  private  or  semi-private  rooms  (at  present 
occupied  by  nurses). 


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Halls  are  broad,  stairways  broad  and  easy  of 
ascent.  An  elevator  shaft  has  been  built  but  eleva- 
tor is  not  yet  installed.  All  wards  and  rooms  are 
well  lighted  with  large  French  windows  and  the 
fourth  floor  is  provided  with  a pleasant  roof  garden. 

All  doors  and  windows  are  screened. 

The  hospital  is  heated  with  hot  water,  lighted  with 
electricity  and  provided  with  modern  bathrooms 
and  toilets  and  a diet  kitchen  on  each  floor. 

The  wards  are  provided  with  up-to-date  American 
iron  beds. 

A new  two-story  isolation  building,  equipped  for 
the  isolation  of  three  diseases,  is  located  on  the 
grounds  to  the  south  of  the  main  building.  In  the 
isolation  building  is  the  hospital  laboratory,  well 
equipped  and  up  to  date. 

Plans  for  a new  up-to-date  dispensary  are  under 
consideration. 

Our  hospital  work  is  large,  and  a very  important 
factor  in  building  the  Christian  community  in  this 
strategic  center.  Our  doctors  minister  to  all  classes 
from  the  highest  to  the  lowest,  members  of  the 
royal  family  and  of  the  president’s  family  being 
among  their  patients. 

The  work  is  greatly  hampered  and  limited  in  its 
growth  by  the  lack  of  women  on  the  staff.  The 
three  doctors  we  have  on  the  field  who  are  now  doing 
double  duty,  serving  on  the  teaching  staff  of  the 
Medical  School  as  well  as  in  our  hospital  work,  are 
all  needed  for  full-time  service  in  one  or  the  other 
of  the  two  places.  We  therefore  need  at  least 
three  additional  doctors. 

A laboratory  worker  is  also  greatly  needed. 

Other  needs  are:  A doctor’s  residence,  $10,000; 
an  elevator  for  the  hospital,  $3500. 

Hospital  Staff 

Dr.  M.  M.  Manderson. 

Dr.  Minnie  Stryker. 

Dr.  Ethel  L.  Leonard. 

Dr.  Frances  J.  Heath  (on  furlough). 

Miss  Alice  Powell,  R.N.  (on  furlough). 

Miss  Frances  Wilson,  R.N. 

Miss  Ruth  Danner,  R.N. 


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WILLIAM  GAMBLE 
MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL  FOR  WOMEN 
AND  CHILDREN 

Chungking,  West  China 

CHUNGKING,  with  its  population  of  700,000, 
is  situated  on  the  Yangtse  River  1400  miles  west  of 
Shanghai.  The  nearest  railroad  station  is  at  Hankow 
1000  miles  away.  The  only  method  of  access  to 
Chungking  is  up  the  river,  either  in  the  small 
steamers  which  ply  irregularly  the  last  six  hundred 
miles,  or  in  small  native  houseboats. 

The  hospital  was  built  in  1901-02  by  Mrs.  Fannie 
Nast  Gamble  in  memory  of  her  husband. 

It  is  a substantial  two  and  one-half  story  brick 
building  of  sixty  beds,  centrally  located  in  the  great 
commercial  city  of  Chungking. 

It  is  one  of  three  women’s  hospitals  for  a popula- 
tion of  between  seventy  or  eighty  millions. 

The  original  cost  was  $5000.  Mrs.  Gamble,  at 
her  death,  gave  $25,000  for  additional  land,  the 
enlargement  and  additional  equipment. 

The  first  year  of  hospital  work  about  6000  patients 
were  treated;  there  has  since  been  a steady  increase 
until  last  year  there  were  21,136  patients  treated. 

The  halls  are  broad;  stairways  broad  and  easy  of 
ascent.  The  three  large  wards  are  light,  airy  rooms. 
The  private  wards  and  rooms  are  light  and  cheerful. 

The  large  wards  all  open  on  porches  which  were 
wide  and  roomy  until,  because  of  the  hospital’s  being 
entirely  too  small  to  accommodate  the  patients,  its 
porches  were  partially  enclosed  and  made  into  open- 
air  private  wards. 

The  hospital  furniture  was  made  on  the  ground 
by  native  workmen  but  it  is  well  made  and  sub- 
stantial. The  beds  are  iron  beds  from  England. 
The  operating  and  sterilizing  rooms,  on  the  second 
floor,  have  good  skylight,  as  well  as  side  lights,  and 
are  equipped  with  modern  sterilizer  and  operating 
table  and  well  supplied  with  instruments. 

Dr.  Agnes  Edmonds,  who  for  years  conducted 
the  work  of  the  hospital  with  great  efficiency,  has 
been  in  the  homeland  for  four  years,  unable  to 
return  because  of  illness. 

Dr.  Laura  E.  Jones  has  been  appointed  and  will 


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arrive  on  the  field  early  in  1920.  Miss  Lillian 
Holmes  and  Miss  Winnogene  Penney,  both  experi- 
enced nurses,  await  the  doctor’s  coming  to  open  the 
work  of  the  hospital. 

Miss  Lydia  Chen,  a Chinese  doctor  trained  in 
our  Peking  Medical  College  for  Women,  will  be  an 
associated  doctor. 

ELIZABETH  SKELTON  DANFORTH 
MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 

Kiukiang,  Kiancsi  Province,  China 

KIUKIANG  (population  60,000)  is  situated  on 
the  south  side  of  the  Yangtse  River,  450  miles 
southwest  of  Shanghai,  150  miles  east  of  Hankow, 
20  miles  north  of  the  entrance  of  Poyang  Lake, 
two  and  one-half  days’  journey  from  Shanghai  by 
comfortable  river  steamers.  It  is  connected  with 
Nanchang,  capital  of  Kiangsi  Province,  by  the 
Nan  Hsun  Railway. 

Medical  work  was  opened  by  Dr.  Mary  Stone 
and  Dr.  Ida  Kahn  in  1896. 

Four  years  later  the  hospital  was  built,  a second 
wing  being  added  in  1908.  The  building  is  made 
of  gray  brick  trimmed  with  gray  granite. 

The  dispensary  and  isolation  ward  were  erected 
at  a cost  of  $12,000. 

The  Anna  Stone  Home  for  physician  and  evan- 
gelistic workers  was  built  in  1909. 

The  orthopedic  ward,  built  in  memory  of  Ida 
Gracey,  is  a unique  feature  of  the  work  and  fur- 
nishes a beautiful  demonstration  of  a Christlike 
service  to  the  Chinese. 

The  nurses’  home  so  much  needed  has  just  been 
provided  for  by  the  handsome  gift  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Nast  of  Cincinnati  and  is  to  be  erected  in  memory 
of  Mrs.  Fannie  Nast  Gamble. 

Other  needs  are:  X-ray  equipment  and  electric 
lighting  for  the  plant. 

Medical  Staff 

Dr.  Mary  Stone,  physician  in  charge. 

Dr.  Phoebe  Stone. 

Two  Chinese  assistants. 

Eight  graduate  nurses. 

Class  of  nurses  in  training:  Seniors,  4;  Juniors,  1 1 ; 
Freshmen,  15. 


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THE  DR.  SITES  MEMORIAL 
GOOD  SHEPHERD  HOSPITAL 

Mintsing,  China 

MINTSING  CITY  is  the  county  seat  of  the 
district,  or  Gaing  City.  Mintsing  City  is  almost 
fifty  miles  up  the  Minn  River  from  Foochow  on  the 
south  side  of  the  river,  in  the  center  of  that  great 
district.  Mintsing  Hospital,  however,  is  at  Lek 
Du  (Sixth  Township)  about  twenty  miles  up  a little 
creek  straight  south  of  Mintsing  City.  The  only 
way  to  get  there  is  by  “rat  boat”  pulled  up  over 
the  rapids  of  this  little  creek  which  takes  all  day, 
or  by  Chinese  mountain  chairs,  or  by  walking. 
All  the  material  for  the  hospital  is  brought  to  Lek 
Du  in  the  small  rat  boats. 

The  building  is  of  the  type  so  prevalent  all  over 
South  China  a few  years  ago.  It  is  made  of  mud, 
brick  and  woodwork  painted  a light  green. 

It  has  two  stories,  with  a chapel,  dispensary 
rooms,  two  or  three  wards,  private  rooms,  and  a 
small  operating  room.  Over  the  dispensary  are 
rooms  for  the  American  staff  (so  far  consisting 
only  of  Dr.  Carleton).  A building  for  Chinese 
assistant  and  nurses  is  in  the  same  compound  just 
back  of  the  hospital  proper. 

Outside  the  compound  wall  an  old  Chinese  build- 
ing has  been  purchased  where  there  is  accom- 
modation for  from  twenty  to  thirty  men  patients, 
the  men  helpers  and  men  servants. 

There  is  no  market  in  Mintsing,  therefore  a 
messenger  has  to  be  sent  to  Foochow  once  a week 
for  such  supplies  as  cannot  be  produced  in  the 
hospital  garden  or  poultry  yard. 

Dr.  Mary  Carleton  has  been  a veritable  “good 
shepherd”  among  the  people  of  the  villages  in  this 
mountain  district  for  thirty  years.  She  has  trained 
a corps  of  Chinese  workers  who  are  ably  “carrying 
on”  while  she  must  come  to  the  homeland  for 
rest  and  study. 

The  most  imperative  needs  are: 

First.  A physician. 

Second.  A nurse. 

Third.  A heating  plant  sufficient  to  sterilize 
towels,  dressing  and  nurses’  clothing. 

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Fourth.  A small  windmill,  so  that  water  which 
is  plentiful  just  in  front  of  the  hospital  may  be 
pumped  into  a reservoir  and  piped  through  the 
hospital.  It  now  must  be  carried  by  coolies. 

Fifth.  Screening  for  the  entire  building. 

Sixth.  A small  tubercular  ward.  It  would  cost 
about  $1500. 

LETITIA  MASON  QUINE  HOSPITAL 
FOR  WOMEN 

Chinkiang,  China 

CHINKIANG  lies  on  the  south  side  of  the 
Yangtse  River  at  the  junction  with  the  Grand  Canal 
coming  from  Tientsin.  The  city  is  150  miles  north- 
west of  Shanghai,  connected  by  railroad,  and  45 
miles  northeast  of  Nanking,  the  former  capital  of 
China. 

From  1884  to  1913,  124,598  patients  were  treated 
in  the  old  Letitia  Mason  Quine  Hospital. 

The  new  hospital  is  a handsome  building  of  gray 
brick  with  red  trimmings  and  is  well  located.  It  is 
the  center  of  a large  medical  work  that  reaches  all 
parts  of  the  city  and  out  into  the  country  districts. 
It  was  finished  October,  1913,  at  a cost  of  $10,000. 
On  the  first  floor  are  the 

Dispensary  departments  (dressing,  drug  and 
reception  rooms),  laboratory,  library,  offices  and 
dietary  kitchen. 

On  the  second  floor  are  the 
Surgical  wards  with  23  beds. 

Three  private  rooms  with  3 beds,  two  with  2 beds. 
One  operating  room,  sterilizing  room,  dressing 
room  and  large  linen  room. 

On  the  third  floor  are  the 

Medical  wards  with  27  beds. 

Three  private  rooms. 

Two  obstetrical  rooms  (for  delivery). 

Two  large  linen  rooms. 

Halls  are  broad,  stairways  broad,  easy  of  ascent. 
The  two  large  wards  are  light,  airy,  sunny  rooms. 
Private  rooms  open  on  front  verandas  by  French 
windows.  The  building  is  screened  throughout. 

In  the  rear,  in  a separate  building,  are  the  kitchen, 
fuel  and  laundry  rooms. 

The  old  hospital,  renovated  for  a home  for 

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nurses,  was  completed  April,  1915,  and  is  named 
the  Mrs.  Maria  Abraham  Heacock  Memorial.  , It 


accommodates  twenty  nurses. 

Among  the  urgent  needs  are: 

A water  system,  $2500 

A heating  plant,  4000 

Bathtubs  and  washing  machines,  700 

X-ray  equipment,  3000 

Equipment  for  operating  room,  1000 

A doctor.  A nurse. 


Hospital  Staff 

Dr.  Emma  Robbins,  physician  in  charge. 

Miss  Florence  Sayles,  R.N. 

ISABELLA  FISHER  HOSPITAL 

Tientsin,  China 

TIENTSIN  is  in  the  province  of  Chihli,  on  the 
Pei  Ho  River  and  the  Grand  Canal.  It  is  sixty 
miles  from  the  sea  and  eighty-five  miles  from  Peking, 
the  capital  of  China.  It  is  the  terminal  of  the 
Tientsin  Pukow  Railroad  and  is  on  the  Peking 
Mukden  Railroad.  Before  the  war  it  was  possible 
to  go  from  Tientsin  to  London,  England,  in  twelve 
days  via  the  Trans-Siberian  Railroad. 

The  original  Isabella  Fisher  Hospital  was  built 
in  1881  by  Dr.  Leonora  Howard  King. 

The  new  building  was  begun  April  20,  1914.  It 
is  situated  in  a densely  populated  section  of  the 
native  city  and  is  the  only  Christian  hospital  for 
women  and  children  in  a city  of  a million  people. 

The  building  is  constructed  of  gray  brick  and  has 
a red  tile  roof.  It  was  put  up  at  a cost  of  40,000 
taels,  or  about  $25,000. 

On  the  ground  floor,  main  building,  are  the 

Offices,  reception  room,  children’s  ward  with  6 

beds. 

Maternity  ward,  with  delivery  room  and  nursery 

adjoining. 

Medical  ward,  with  4 beds. 

Four  private  rooms,  three  with  2 beds  each. 

Bathrooms,  toilet  and  utility  rooms. 

On  the  second  floor  there  is  the 

Surgical  department  in  a separate  wing. 

Private  rooms. 


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Two  large  wards. 

Bathrooms,  toilet  and  utility  rooms. 

The  halls  are  eight  feet  wide  and  well  lighted; 
the  stairs,  of  concrete,  are  broad  and  easy  of  ascent: 

There  is  a large  sun  parlor  on  each  floor,  opening 
off  the  porch  which  is  eleven  feet  wide  and  runs 
across  the  front  of  the  building. 

The  building  is  equipped  with  electric  lights, 
steam  heat  and  modern  plumbing.  Every  room  in 
the  building  is  well  lighted,  is  sunny  and  has  an 
abundance  of  air  space.  Transoms  over  every  door. 
Ceilings  are  12  feet  high  on  first  floor  and  on  second 
floor  nyZ  feet. 

The  walls  are  finished  in  cement  plaster;  all 
woodwork,  except  floors,  finished  in  good  American 
varnish.  Floors  done  in  Chinese  oil.  All  the  floors 
in  the  halls,  toilets,  bath  and  utility  rooms,  kitchens, 
dining  rooms,  linen  closets,  storerooms,  verandas, 
etc.,  are  made  of  gray  cement  tiles  laid  on  reinforced 
concrete.  The  building  is  practically  fireproof. 
The  surgical  wing  is  all  done  in  white  and  was  said 
by  the  Rockefeller  Commission  to  be  the  finest  in 
China.  Windows  are  numerous  and  all  are  screened 
in  summer;  there  are  double  windows  on  north  and 
west  in  winter. 

The  surgical  ward  has  four  beds. 

There  is  a well-equiped  laboratory. 

The  hospital  is  equipped  with  iron  beds  made  to 
order  in  Japan,  with  cross  strips  of  iron  instead  of 
springs.  The  dispensary  building  is  entirely  sepa- 
rate from  the  main  hospital,  with  facilities  for 
treating  several  hundred  patients  daily. 

The  greatest  need  is  for  a nurses’  home.  Isolation 
wards  and  servants’  quarters  are  also  greatly  needed. 

Funds  to  make  possible  a country  medical  work 
would  be  a great  blessing  to  the  people. 

The  salary  for  a Chinese  house  doctor  is  needed. 

Medical  Staff 

Dr.  Iva  Miller,  physician  in  charge. 

Dr.  Emma  Martin  (on  furlough). 

One  Chinese  assistant. 

Miss  Eva  Gregg,  R.N. 

Miss  Mabel  E.  Simpson,  R.N. 

Miss  Mary  Bedell,  laboratory  worker. 


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WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN’S  HOSPITAL 

Nanchang,  Kiangsi  Province,  China 

NANCHANG,  the  capital  of  Kiangsi  Province, 
is  situated  at  the  junction  of  the  Kan  and  Fu 
Rivers,  about  thirty  miles  south  of  Poyang  Lake. 
It  is  five  hundred  miles  distant  from  Shanghai  and 
is  connected  by  rail  with  Kiukiang,  a Yangtse 
River  port.  It  is  one  of  China’s  rich,  southern, 
agricultural  provinces,  and  numbers  about  one 
million  inhabitants.  It  is  the  commercial,  political 
and  educational  center  of  a great  province  larger 
than  Illinois  and  with  five  times  its  population. 
Expert  observers  and  travelers  in  China  estimate 
Nanchang  to  be  one  of  the  five  best  purely  native 
cities  in  the  great  Chinese  Republic.  It  has  railroad 
and  steamboat  connections  with  the  Yangtse  River, 
and  thence  has  steamboat  and  rail  connections  with 
Shanghai  and  the  Pacific  Coast.  It  is  a journey  of 
from  sixty  to  seventy-two  hours  from  Shanghai  to 
Nanchang. 

In  this  great  city  years  ago  Miss  Howe  began  her 
work  for  Chinese  women.  With  her  in  1902,  at  the 
invitation  of  the  wealthy  gentry  of  Nanchang,  came 
Dr.  Ida  Kahn  to  open  medical  work  for  women. 
The  gentry  presented  the  Woman’s  Foreign  Mis- 
sionary Society  with  a good  site  within  the  city 
on  which  to  locate  this  work.  A small  building 
was  secured  from  a Buddhist  nunnery  and  here 
Dr.  Kahn  opened  a clinic.  This  site  has  since  then 
been  constantly  added  to  by  purchase  and  gift  and 
is  today  one  of  the  beauty  spots  of  Nanchang. 
In  addition  to  her  skill  as  a physician  and  surgeon, 
Dr.  Kahn  is  an  expert  horticulturist  and  a great 
lover  of  trees  and  flowers. 

In  1913  a one-hundred-bed  hospital  building  was 
completed  on  this  site.  This  is  a fine  roomy,  two- 
story-and-basement  building  of  brick  and  granite. 
The  wide  corridors  with  their  mahogany  red  floors 
— native  pine  finished  with  the  beautiful  Ningpo 
varnish  — glistening  in  their  cleanliness,  afford 
beautiful  sunny  promenades  for  the  patients.  Like- 
wise the  five  large  wards  are  airy  and  sunny  havens 
of  cleanliness  and  health  for  thousands  of  women 
sufferers  who  never  before  had  seen  such  beautiful 
thoughtfulness  and  love  bestowed  on  the  sick. 


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There  are  a dozen  or  more  private  rooms  besides 
attractive  reception  rooms,  classrooms,  nurses’ 
living  rooms,  and  a large  section  devoted  to  the 
chapel  and  the  out-patient  dispensary  work.  Thou- 
sands of  patients  are  treated  in  this  dispensary 
every  year. 

The  building  is  in  the  shape  of  a big  “H”  with 
the  open  sides  toward  the  east  and  west,  so  its 
rooms  have  abundant  light. 

In  the  northwest  and  southeast  arms  are  large 
fourteen-bed  wards  with  verandas  to  the  east  and 
north.  These  are  on  both  first  and  second  floors. 

In  the  northwest  arm  is  a very  large  ward  or 
assembly  room  with  a capacity  of  about  thirty  beds. 
There  are  not  beds  and  equipment  enough  to 
furnish  this  room,  so  it  is  used  as  a lecture  or  assem- 
bly room  for  special  occasions.  On  the  second 
floor  of  this  part  is  a series  of  one-and-two-bed 
private  rooms,  ten  or  twelve  in  number. 

In  the  southeast  arm  on  the  main  floor  are  the 
chapel  waiting  room  for  dispensary  patients,  the 
examining  rooms,  treatment,  drug  rooms,  labora- 
tory. On  the  second  floor  of  this  section  are  a series 
of  private  one-and-two-bed  rooms  that  are  at  present 
used  by  the  nurses. 

In  the  cross  arm  of  the  “H”  on  the  main  floor 
are  entrance  reception  rooms,  nurses’  dining  room, 
classrooms,  and  bathrooms.  On  the  second  floor  are 
the  operating  suite  and  two  special  private  rooms. 

The  cost  of  erecting  this  building  was  $15,000. 

The  grounds  about  the  hospital  building  are  spa- 
cious and  beautifully  laid  out  with  choice  shrub- 
bery, trees  and  flowers.  Dr.  Kahn’s  horticulture 
wins  the  admiration  of  China’s  connoisseurs  in  the 
horticultural  art.  The  entrance,  with  its  imposing 
wrought-iron  gates,  stands  about  fifty  yards  distant 
from  the  hospital  building. 

The  grounds  are  surrounded  by  a high  brick 
wall,  as  is  the  custom  everywhere  in  the  Orient, 
and  are  located  against  the  city  wall  in  one  corner 
of  the  city  away  from  the  crowd  and  noise  of  traffic. 

The  needs  are: 

First.  A nurses’  home,  $8000 

Second.  Kitchen  and  laundry,  2500 

Third.  Furniture  and  equipment  for  the  unfur- 


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nished  wing  and  additional  hospital  equipment, 
several  thousand  dollars.  Nurse  scholarships  needed. 

Medical  Staff 

Dr.  Ida  Kahn,  doctor  in  charge. 

Miss  Hazel  Shoub,  business  manager  and  doctor’s 
assistant.  Ten  nurses  in  training. 

WOMEN  AND  CHILDREN’S  HOSPITAL 

Lungtien,  China 

LUNGTIEN  is  a little  town  on  the  seacoast  but 
draws  from  a large  country  district.  To  reach  it 
from  Foochow  one  goes  by  boat  to  the  river  anchor- 
age, ten  miles  below  the  city,  and  then  up  another 
smaller  river  about  ten  or  fifteen  miles.  It  requires 
the  help  of  two  tides  to  reach  the  village  up  this 
second  creek,  where  one  leaves  the  boat  to  go  over- 
land for  about  twenty-five  or  thirty  miles. 

The  hospital  is  built  of  red  brick,  and  is  a two- 
story  building  set  in  a spacious  compound.  It  suf- 
fers much  from  wind  and  brick  disintegration  from 
the  action  of  the  salt.  It  has  recently  had  a new 
roof  and  contagious  wards  built. 

On  the  first  floor  are 

Drug  room. 

Clinic  room. 

Dressing  room. 

A waiting  room  used  as  a chapel. 

Wards  and  rooms  for  patients. 

On  the  second  floor 

Large,  light  operating  room. 

Rooms  for  private  patients  and  operative  cases. 

Dr.  Li’s  two  bedrooms  and  pleasant  sitting  room. 

Nurses’  rooms. 

There  are  ten  nurses  in  training.  Dr.  Wong  Kie 
Chung  has  been  Dr.  Li’s  assistant  for  ten  years. 
She  is  a very  earnest  Christian,  and  a faithful, 
efficient  worker.  The  work  of  this  splendid  staff  of 
Chinese  has  outgrown  the  building  and  equipment. 

The  patients  are  crowded  into  every  possible 
space,  and  six  nurses  are  sleeping  in  a twelve-by- 
fourteen  room.  The  furniture  is  wooden,  and  the 
beds  rattan,  and  all  are  old. 

The  operating  room  is  very  poorly  equipped. 

The  most  helpful  thing  we  can  do  in  the  mission 


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fields  is  to  encourage  the  development  of  work  under 
native  leadership.  This  hospital  under  the  care  of 
Dr.  Li  Ri  Cu,  one  of  our  able  Chinese  doctors,  must 
be  enlarged,  remodeled  and  refurnished. 

A doctor’s  residence  is  also  one  of  the  necessities. 

It  will  require  quite  a sum  of  money  to  put  this 
plant  at  maximum  efficiency,  but  this  is  one  of  the 
places  where  we  need  ask  for  money  only. 

MAGAW  MEMORIAL  HOSPITAL 

Foochow,  China 

FOOCHOW,  the  capital  of  Fukien  Province,  lies 
about  halfway  between  Shanghai  and  Hongkong. 
The  old  walled  city,  built  about  four  thousand  years 
ago,  is  three  miles  to  the  north,  but  the  present  new 
city  that  has  grown  up  within  the  last  two  thousand 
years  is  on  both  banks  of  the  beautiful  Min  River, 
ten  miles  from  the  steamer  anchorage  and  thirty 
miles  from  the  open  sea,  surrounded  by  mountains. 
The  only  way  to  reach  the  city  from  the  outside 
world  is  by  steamer  from  the  north  or  south.  This 
city  has  been  called  “The  Gateway  to  Southern 
China”  and  is  the  center  of  wealth,  education  and 
commerce  for  all  the  inland  country.  The  people 
from  the  inland  country  come  to  the  city  by  the 
river  boats,  or  overland. 

The  climate  is  very  hot  in  summer,  with  a long 
rainy  season  in  the  spring,  but  delightful  in  the  fall 
and  winter. 

The  first  hospital  for  women  in  China  was  the  one 
Dr.  Trask  built  here  in  1875,  known  as  the  Liangau 
Hospital.  That  hospital  was  built  on  the  south  side 
of  the  river,  three  minutes’  walk  from  the  up-river 
boat  landing  and  ten  minutes  from  the  steamer 
landing.  Forty  years  later,  1915,  the  old  hospital 
was  replaced  by  the  new  Magaw  Memorial.  At  the 
laying  of  the  cornerstone  of  this  building,  in  1912, 
the  governor  of  the  province  was  present  and  par- 
ticipated, this  being  the  first  woman’s  function  so 
honored.  After  dining  with  a large  company  in 
the  mission  home,  he  spoke  at  the  ceremony. 
Later  he  delivered  the  address  at  the  first  com- 
mencement of  the  Nurses’  Training  School. 

The  new  hospital  is  a handsome  building,  of  red 
brick  with  gray  trimming,  three  stories  high,  with 


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wings  extended,  forming  an  open  court  in  front  — 
Chinese  style. 

On  the  first  floor.  To  the  left  as  one  enters  are 
the  chapel,  clinic,  consulting  and  dressing  rooms. 
To  the  right,  nurses’  rooms  with  bathroom.  In  the 
center,  in  the  main  part,  is  the  large  kitchen, 
laundry,  storerooms  for  supplies,  drugs  and  general 
use,  wood  and  furnace  room,  with  room  for  helpers 
and  elevator  shaft.  The  morgue  is  connected,  but 
is  outside  and  unseen. 

On  the  second  floor  are  children’s  ward  and  gen- 
eral ward  with  bathrooms.  To  the  right,  two  large 
medical  wards  with  bathroom.  Center,  main  recep- 
tion rooms,  nurses’  classroom  and  offices,  matron’s 
room,  diet  kitchen,  linen  dressing  and  drug  rooms 
with  laboratory. 

On  the  third  floor.  To  the  left  are  small  private 
rooms  and  bathroom.  To  the  right,  one  private 
suite,  maternity  ward  and  delivery  room.  In  the 
center,  diet  kitchen,  eye  ward,  two  surgical  wards, 
three  family  private  rooms,  dressing  room  and 
operating  suite  consisting  of  operating,  sterilizing 
and  anaesthetic  rooms. 

The  halls  and  stairways  are  all  wide,  light  and 
airy.  Six  sun  parlors  finish  the  three-story  building 
of  the  two  wings  and  wide  open  verandas  on  all 
three  floors  make  life  pleasant  for  patients. 

The  building  is  finished  in  hard  wood,  oiled, 
natural  color.  All  windows  are  French  style  open- 
ing into  the  rooms.  There  are  shutters  on  all  outside 
windows.  Ceilings  are  high  and  walls  finished  in  hard 
plaster  and  painted  or  decorated  in  hard  finish. 
Numerous  closets,  drawers  and  lockers  in  all  parts 
of  the  building.  Nine  outside  entrances  and  three 
inside  stairways  give  easy  access  to  all  parts  of 
building.  The  building  is  screened,  equipped  with 
American  iron  beds  and  lighted  with  electricity. 

Large  beautiful  grounds  dotted  with  trees  and 
Oriental  flowering  shrubs,  tennis  and  volley-ball 
courts  and  soft  green  lawns  make  this  the  most 
beautiful  compound  in  Foochow. 

The  Nurses’  Training  School  in  connection  with 
the  hospital  was  opened  in  1908  by  Cora  Simpson 
and  registered  in  1914.  It  was  the  first  school 
registered  in  China  and  was  among  the  first,  if  not 


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the  very  first  to  graduate  a nurse.  The  regular 
three-year  nurses’  course  is  given  and  a fourth  year 
for  the  obstetrical  course. 

The  hospital  workers  are  in  charge  of  a large  and 
most  interesting  leper  work.  The  colony  is  five 
miles  away.  We  have  there  a home,  a day  school, 
a dispensary  and  a church.  The  force  of  resident 
workers  includes  a pastor,  a teacher  and  two  Bible 
women.  There  is  a fine  church  membership  who 
enjoy  all  the  regular  service  of  a well  organized 
church. 

There  is  a large  practice  among  the  floating  boat 
population.  Patients  come  from  the  far-inland 
districts,  as  well  as  from  the  seacoast  near  by  and 
the  population  of  the  city  of  a million  or  more. 

The  surgery  and  maternity  field  is  unlimited, 
and  a large  opportunity  open  for  research,  medical, 
social  service  and  public  health  work. 

The  medical  residence  is  connected  with  the 
hospital  by  a covered  walk  of  twenty  feet. 

The  hospital  needs  a heating  plant  and  an  elevator. 

To  complete  the  plant  a fourth  story  should  be 
added  to  be  used  as  dormitories  for  the  nurses  who 
are  now  overcrowded  in  their  temporary  quarters 
on  the  first  floor.  A dispensary  building  and  a 
chapel  are  needed. 

The  semi-foreign  building  in  the  compound  used 
as  an  isolation  building  needs  remodeling. 

Two  doctors  and  a nurse  are  imperative  needs. 

Medical  Staff 

Dr.  Ellen  Lyon. 

Miss  Cora  Simpson,  R.N. 

WOOLSTON  MEMORIAL  DISPENSARY 

Foochow,  China 

'WOOLSTON  MEMORIAL  DISPENSARY  is 
inside  the  walled  city  of  Foochow,  ten  minutes’ 
walk  west  of  the  South  Gate.  It  is  just  at  the  foot 
of  Black  Rock  Hill  on  the  Su  and  opens  onto  a very 
busy  street.  It  is  a new  red-brick  building  of  two 
stories. 

On  the  first  floor  there  is  a pretty  little  chapel,  a 
consulting  clinic  and  dressing  rooms. 

The  second  floor  furnishes  rooms  for  emergency 
patients  and  also  rooms  for  helpers. 


There  are  wide  French  windows  and  doors,  mak- 
ing the  place  airy  a^d  cheerful. 

The  doctor’s  re;  i fence  is  back  of  the  dispensary  — 
a very  pretty  semi-foreign,  brick  house,  with  many 
trees  and  flowers  about  it. 

Dr.  Hu  King  Eng,  one  of  the  best  physicians  in 
the  province,  and  a very  influential  Chinese  woman, 
is  in  charge.  Her  principal  assistant  is  Dr.  Suek 
Eng,  her  sister.  They  have  developed  a large, 
strong  medical  work.  It  is  work  like  this,  devel- 
oped by  the  initiative  of  able  Chinese  leaders,  that 
is  the  objective  in  our  ideals. 

MARGARET  ELIZA  NAST  MEMORIAL 
HOSPITAL 

Sienyu,  China 

SIENYU  is  a walled  city  of  about  35,000  inhabi- 
tants located  in  a fertile,  densely  populated  plain 
1 25  miles  southwest  of  Foochow  and  27  miles  from 
Hinghwa,  a hard  day’s  journey. 

The  hospital  was  erected  in  1904  by  Mrs.  W.  A. 
Gamble  as  a memorial  to  her  mother.  It  has  a 
capacity  of  60  beds  and  is  under  homeopathic  man- 
agement. It  is  a substantial  building  130  feet  by 
55  feet,  built  outside  the  city  with  an  acre  of 
ground  surrounding  it. 

There  are  six  wards  with  six  beds  each. 

There  are  four  private  wards  with  three  beds 
and  three  wards  with  four  beds  each. 

All  windows  and  doors  are  screened. 

The  operating  room  is  well  equipped. 

The  drug  room,  laboratory,  offices,  chapel  and 
dressing  rooms  are  on  the  first  floor. 

The  ceilings  are  twelve  feet  high,  and  the  rooms 
well  lighted  and  ventilated. 

Rooms  are  furnished  with  American  iron  beds. 

Dr.  Emma  Betow,  an  able  physician  and  surgeon, 
has  been  in  charge  of  the  work  for  many  years.  A 
year  ago  Dr.  Eda  Johnson  went  to  her  assistance. 
A nurse  has  been  appointed  and  will  go  to  the 
field  early  in  1920. 

A nurses’  home  and  a chapel  are  needs  which 
have  been  provided  for  by  Mrs.  Gamble  and  will 
be  erected  in  the  near  future. 

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